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Checking Accounts That Pay Decent Interest

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012

High-yield checking accounts might be as rare as Sasquatch these days, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. An annual survey from Bankrate.com, ...

Five Prepaid Card Myths

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012

Prepaid cards are everywhere these days, quickly replacing cash and checks as the fastest way to transfer money. If you're not familiar with them, the...

Farmville Gets An Amex Card

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012

American Express is willing to farm for money. On Tuesday, the financial services company announced the launch of a new FarmVille-branded prepaid ...

Sorry, No More Free Checking Accounts At This Bank

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.21.2012

Free checking at Wells Fargo is officially over. Effective August 7, all Essential Checking customers will pay a $7 monthly service fee. Until rec...

The Latest Bank To Raise Fees

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.17.2012

Another bank is raising fees. U.S. Bank is bumping up overdraft fees for all its accounts beginning June 29, the Minneapolis-based bank confirmed o...

Chase Going After The Poor With New Card

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.10.2012

JPMorgan Chase wants it all, catering to everyone from the richest customers who provide hefty returns on deposits to the poorest who are willing to p...

Catherine New

This Man Has Not Had A Bank Account In 14 Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 05.07.2012

Josh Crawford, 42, of Squaw Valley, Calif., has not had a checking account or credit card in 14 years. But that has not stopped him from participating...

Zach Carter

Pain At The Pump? Convenience Stores Blame Credit Card Fees

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.09.2012

WASHINGTON -- Ten months after the American retailers won a lobbying victory on Capitol Hill against debit card swipe fees, a trade group representing...

How To Bank For Free

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.28.2012

Despite an uptick in the number of big banks charging fees for low-balance checking accounts, free checking accounts are not dead--yet. A new tool...

Catherine New

He Fought Bank Fees And Won

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 03.05.2012

It was the train ticket to bank-fee hell. Three days after Taylor McKinley, 27, closed his checking account at Fifth Third Bank, an automatic $10 ...

Zach Carter

Swipe Fee Fallout Has Small Banks Relishing Rare Advantage Over Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.02.2012

Last year's wild legislative melee over debit card swipe fees featured a curious contradiction: Although big Wall Street banks stood to lose the most ...

Hey JPMorgan, A Bank Account Is Not Like A Gym Membership

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.01.2012

JP Morgan Chase wants consumers to believe that a maintenance fee for a checking account is just another ordinary item in a household's monthly budget...

Government Considering Cracking Down On Overdraft Fees

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

By Dave Clarke WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing a crackdown on checking a...

Catherine New

Overdraft Settlements Cost Banks A Small Fraction Of What's Netted In Fees

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 02.07.2012

When compared with the billions of dollars big banks have rung up in overdraft fees over the last decade, recent settlements with customers over unfai...

Catherine New

Overdraft Fees Reach A New High

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 01.18.2012

The cost of not having enough money just got steeper. The median overdraft fee banks charge customers surged to $30 from $27.50 last year, accordi...

Bank Outlook 2012: Six Trends to Watch

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.20.2012

Richard Barrington

Will customers be treated to higher deposit or higher fees? Or will a wild card such as technology dominate banking news in 2012?

Credit Unions Back In The Spotlight After BofA Debit Fee Hike

AP | By CANDICE CHOI | Posted 12.07.2011

NEW YORK -- Credit unions are basking in the spotlight again. Whenever a big bank rolls out a controversial fee, customers start fuming about taking ...

U.S. Banks Losing Ground In Combating Credit, Debit Card Fraud: Report

Posted 12.04.2011

(Ross Kerber) - U.S. banks are losing ground in the battle to combat credit and debit card fraud, a new report shows, underscoring the growing thr...

Ryan Grim

Dems On Offense Against Bank Of America For Debit Fee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- While demonstrators in New York are calling for an occupation of Wall Street, a new push by Democrats in Congress proposes a different t...

Say Goodbye to Checking Accounts?

Odysseas Papadimitriou | Posted 11.16.2011

Odysseas Papadimitriou

While you may still be happy with your checking account and may not have incurred additional fees as result of the Durbin Amendment, it's still important to be aware of major industry trends such as these.

E-Commerce in China: Patriarchic Benevolence

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 10.14.2011

Tom Doctoroff

China's e-commerce scene is, like the Internet itself, a paradoxical combination of "democratic" people power and top-down "management."

In The Public Interest: Congress Still Demonizing Elizabeth Warren, Meanwhile, Chase Rolls Out the $5 ATM Fee

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 06.05.2011

Ed Mierzwinski

Washington should be implementing Wall Street reform, not tearing it down.

Senator Durbin: Don't Dump on the Poor And Call It Rain

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Russell Simmons

I am extremely concerned about the potential impact that the "Durbin Amendment" will have on the ability of community banks and credit unions to provide card services at affordable rates to poor Americans.

Debit Card Spending Up, Fees Likely To Follow

CNN Money | David Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Could debit cards be the next cash cow for banks? If banks have their way, they will. Americans have conducted more transactions and spent more money...

"Identity Crisis"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.17.2011

Jerry Zezima

At the risk of being sued by Popeye, I am what I am. Unfortunately, what I am can't be printed in a family newspaper. I don't even know who I am anymore. That's because my identity was recently stolen.